TSG2024-25 PMU JUDGES
Meet Our PMU Competition Judges
Expert Judges - Permanent Makeup
Andrea McCollough
Andrea was born and raised in Colorado, and is the owner of AM Aesthetics in Denver, CO. With 13 years practicing in esthetics, Andrea has an enormous passion for empowering women. Through her business, beauty enhancing treatments are offered, including permanent makeup, laser, and physician-grade skin care treatments. Along with running her business, Andrea is a business coach with Pretty Rich Bosses/Sheila Bella assisting beauty entrepreneurs all over the world with building their beauty businesses. AM Aesthetics regularly volunteers facial & hair days at a local organization, the Women’s Bean Project, employing chronically unemployed women. Having been a previous player with the Skin Games, and now serving as a judge the 4 previous years, Andrea is excited to see and learn what 2024 players are bringing to the games!
Karla Pelaez-Barrick
Karla has been in the health and beauty industry for almost 20 years. For fifteen years she was co-owner of an award-winning, internationally published salon and frequently featured in “Ask the Expert” columns of various magazines. While hair is what led her into the beauty industry, her passion for permanent makeup and skincare led her to found Microblading Bay Area. She is an educator, LPC, PMU artist and aesthetic nurse whose passion is in skin and hair rejuvenation. A firm believer that learning never stops, Karla is always seeking to expand and improve her knowledge while also helping others expand their skill set.
Jaclyn Peresetsky
Jaclyn Peresetsky founded Skin Perfect Spas in 2007, Colore Me Perfect in 2010 and Skin Perfect Academy in 2019. She is an accomplished color expert, makeup and permanent makeup artist, master esthetician, author, and speaker. She is certified as a national micropigmentation instructor to certify professionals who would like to learn the craft of permanent makeup and microblading. She mentors and coaches’ estheticians and cosmetologists all over the country in advanced esthetics, eyelash treatments and color theory. She recently developed an online advanced esthetic bootcamp training program to raise the bar of esthetic training. Jaclyn is featured on Good Day Columbus on Fox 28 in Columbus, Ohio and Spectrum News.
She is a keynote speaker and delivers live trainings for spa and color industry professionals at national conferences like the International Congress of Esthetics and Spa and Spa and International Esthetics, Cosmetics & Spa Conference.
Jaclyn has been featured in Capital Style magazine, Business First, Columbus CEO, Buckeye Magazine, The Drenda Show, iVillage.com, Leaf TV.com, SheKnows.com and many other beauty blogs.
She is the owner of Colore Me Perfect Cosmetics, Skin Perfect spas in Columbus, Ohio and Naples, Florida and Skin Perfect Academy.
Jaclyn is the author of the book, Discover the Power of YOUR Colors, showing you how to transform your life through color.
Jaclyn is available for keynotes, workshops, media interviews, and color consultations:
Email jaclyn.peresetsky@gmail.com or call 239-262-5110
Julianna Milin
Leading American master in the PMU and Microblading techniques. Julianna has perfected the art of creating perfect symmetry using the Golden Ratio Shaping Technique, and realistic hair strokes using the manual needles.
Julia has trained extensively in Asia, Europe, and Africa and is now proud to bring this new, cutting-edge techniques to the United States.
She is the founder and head of the illustrious Brow Design International®, the leading American academy for Microblading training and certification.
“Named New York’s Microblading Guru by ABC’s Good Morning America and Marie Claire Magazine”
Julia Anne Milin lives the mission of HydroStain Lips™. She is a natural-born artistic soul with the internal instinct to innovate.
Julianna has become one of the nation’s most widely respected permanent makeup artists and instructors. Known for her cutting-edge artistry and one-of-a-kind techniques, Julia Anne Milin continues to set the bar within the aesthetic beauty realm of the beauty industry. Her distinctive precision and innovational procedures are notably praised. She is labeled as the pioneer of microblading. Being the first microblading clinical offices to open within New York and Texas, Brow Design International is recognized as the sole entity responsible for putting this new state-of-the-art procedure on the map. Since the birth of Brow Design International, and later Brow Design Microblading Academy, Julia Anne continues to shape the future of microblading techniques as she consistently reinvents her craft, while simultaneously magnifying the industry standards.
Sherah Juarez
Sherah Juarez is a certified micropigmentologist with 20+ years of experience, and owner of Ink Boutique Houston. She specializes in 3D areola tattoos, which provide realistic looking nipples and areolas to predominately breast cancer survivors. This service can also benefit individuals who have lost their nipples to reconstructive surgery. Sherah works in Houston at 7 major hospitals in 28 doctor’s offices. During her career, she has tattooed over 20,000 nipples. Sherah hosts in-person paramedical trainings at her facility at Lake Livingston, but she also offers a wide range of paramedical training courses available online. Sherah loves to travel to conferences where she is able to educate attendees while sharing her passion with others.